A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.

Music is about your feelings.

It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.